An Analysis of a Brer Rabbit Book
The 1930's were quite different than today. You see, this was the time before television existed. As such, people tended to do different things than we do today. One of these different activities was reading. There is nothing very unique about this book - Brer Rabbit stories were quite commonplace for a good part of American history. Emerging from the Uncle Remus tradition following the Civil War, these tales featured Brer Rabbit, a trickster figure from African-American mythology. The actual artifact is simply a hard-back children's book. The colors are fairly drab, and it doesn't look particularly elegant. As an artifact of the Depression, it is logical to assume that the book was probably inexpensive. It would have been read to or by children, which ties into the family oriented town of Greenbelt. It is also interesting to note that a culture which would not allow blacks to live in a town they built read stories filled with negative stereotypes about African-Americans.

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